Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Thailand and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Mary Jane Girls to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo. All the underground hits.
All Liliput tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rhythm & Sound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Move record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quando Quango,
Arab on Radar,
DJ Style,
The Skatalites,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Nick Fraelich,
Sixth Finger,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Excepter,
Todd Rundgren,
ABC,
Parry Music,
the Fania All-Stars,
Trumans Water,
The Smoke,
The Walker Brothers,
Pierre Henry,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Buzzcocks,
Colin Newman,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Saints,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Smog,
Avey Tare,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
the Bar-Kays,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Camouflage,
Kenny Larkin,
Monks,
Man Parrish,
Erykah Badu,
Warren Ellis,
Judy Mowatt,
Lee Hazlewood,
Young Marble Giants,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Negative Approach,
Cal Tjader,
The Remains,
Fela Kuti,
Derrick Morgan,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Oneida,
Black Moon,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Fall,
The Gap Band,
Dennis Brown,
Slave,
Yaz,
Lightning Bolt,
Magma,
Josef K,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Young Rascals,
Hot Snakes,
Franke,
Bill Wells,
James White and The Blacks,
T. Rex, T. Rex, T. Rex, T. Rex.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.